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GPB: Humanitarian effort in Ukraine looks toward long haul
Georgians are responding to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine in many different ways, from homespun fundraisers and rallies to multinational efforts. One of the largest Georgia-based organizations dispatching workers to Eastern Europe is CARE USA.
Read MoreUkraine Conflict Affects Emergency Response and Job Markets in Southern Africa
As the conflict in Ukraine continues, the shock waves are being felt all the way in Southern Africa which is still reeling from one of the worst cyclone seasons. From a shortage of relief supplies to hiked fuel costs, communities that were slowly recovering from the loss of livelihoods and floods now face another challenge as the cost of living increases.
Read More#LighttheWorld initiative raises more than $625,000 during the 2021 holiday season to help those in need through CARE programs around the world.
CARE announced today that #LighttheWorld, a global campaign organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had raised more than $625,000 during the 2021 holiday season for CARE programs that fight hunger and provide life-saving resources.
Read MoreSomalia: Early Marriages, FGM and Closure of Businesses Threaten Girls and Women as Drought Worsens
Indicators point to the erosion of gains made for girls' and women's rights in Somalia as the drought worsens. Girls are being forced to drop out of school putting them at risk of harmful traditional practices such as early marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Women-run businesses have been hit especially hard with 98% of them having lost revenue and income due to the high cost of goods,
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CARE is there delivering lifesaving aid and defending the lives of families in crisis.
Now into their Eighth Year of War, 19 million Yemenis, including 2.2 million children under the age of five, will be facing hunger
Tomorrow the people of Yemen will enter their eighth year of living in a country in active conflict. Over the period of 2,555 days and nights, Yemenis have been experiencing a deteriorating economic hardship and loss of income, displacement and a daily struggle to meet their most basic needs.
Read MoreAP: Rich countries getting new COVID vaccine before poorer ones
NEW DELHI (AP) — The company behind a COVID-19 vaccine touted as a key tool for the developing world has sent tens of millions of doses to wealthy nations but provided none yet to the U.N.-backed effort to supply poorer countries, a sign that inequity persists in the global response to the pandemic.
Read MoreDespite announcements, schools remain closed for high school girls in Afghanistan
Despite previous announcements that all schools for boys and girls would reopen on 23 March 2022, girls above grade 6 were sent home this morning, so the ban from school continues for them. Most schools closed after August 2021, and gradually reopened for boys in all grades, for girls up to grade 6, and for university students. But girls above grade 6 have been at home for nearly 8 months.
Read MoreUkraine Conflict: Soaring Food and Fuel Prices Threaten Wellbeing of Millions in East, Central, and the Horn of Africa
As the conflict in Ukraine continues, hundreds of kilometers away, communities in Africa are feeling the ripple effects. Across the East, Central, and Southern Africa Region, ordinary citizens are experiencing the initial effects even as indicators, and analysts, point to even more adverse repercussions hitting the region within the next six months.
Read MoreCNN: How aid organizations are responding to the crisis in Ukraine — inside the country, at the border and beyond
In the parking lot of a refugee reception center just inside Poland, Ukrainian women spoke last week with a bus driver as aid worker Chris Skopec stood nearby. "It looks like I'm going to Germany," one of the war refugees told Skopec as she laughed hysterically. "How ridiculous is that?"
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